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192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution

The Michael Shermer Show

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Psychiatry

Psychopathy seems to be a little bit more frequent than you could explain by samutatien a recombination. There's this concept in evolutionary biology of frequency dependent selection. If psychopaths are rare enough, then they might have more children than the average. As long as we're all fairly trusting, because only three % of the population are psycopat, we don't run into psychopaths that often.

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